Joel Courtney ☀️ 🔌 💻
@joelmcourtney.bsky.social
CTO @ https://enosi.energy
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Passionate about smarter energy future. DERs, EVs, Management, Technology.
Prev: CTO @ COzero/EnergyLink, smart grid engineering and innovation Ausgrid
Passionate about smarter energy future. DERs, EVs, Management, Technology.
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LOL: The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage
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November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
LOL: The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage
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Longi's latest 27.81% efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell is based on passivated tunneling contacts and dielectric passivation layers, but also incorporates both n-type and p-type contacts. I suspected as much.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
Longi reveals details of world’s most efficient silicon solar cell
In a new scientific paper, the Chinese solar manufacturer explained that the 27.81%-efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell it unveiled in April is based on passivated tunneling contacts and...
www.pv-magazine.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Longi's latest 27.81% efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell is based on passivated tunneling contacts and dielectric passivation layers, but also incorporates both n-type and p-type contacts. I suspected as much.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest(s)?”
This violent rhetoric is unbecoming of the Presidency and dangerous in a time of heightened political violence. We all need to lower the temperature. Dangerous distractions when we should be working to lower costs and make life more affordable for hardworking American families are just wrong.
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest(s)?”
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
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TRUMP: This is the greatest economy of all time
ALSO TRUMP: If the Fed doesn't juice the economy right now I am going to fire everyone's asses
ALSO TRUMP: If the Fed doesn't juice the economy right now I am going to fire everyone's asses
Trump on Jerome Powell: "I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. The only thing Scott [Bessent] is blowing it on is the Fed. The rates are too high, Scott. And if you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going to fire your ass."
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
TRUMP: This is the greatest economy of all time
ALSO TRUMP: If the Fed doesn't juice the economy right now I am going to fire everyone's asses
ALSO TRUMP: If the Fed doesn't juice the economy right now I am going to fire everyone's asses
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As Keynes put it, “when the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
This is a very good episode with @advaitarun.bsky.social.
Really interesting moment when they were musing about why data centers were the thing driving 40% of GDP right now, instead of housing or high speed rail. Why is speculation such a large part of how we do infrastructure spending in the US?
Really interesting moment when they were musing about why data centers were the thing driving 40% of GDP right now, instead of housing or high speed rail. Why is speculation such a large part of how we do infrastructure spending in the US?
open.spotify.com/episode/6onK...
Jenkins expresses skepticism about another user as power dense as a data center that could make use of a GW should the DC not show up, unless we start a new virgin Al industry.
We DO need clean steel, though, and our 7/8 blast furnaces will need 30+GW to replace
Jenkins expresses skepticism about another user as power dense as a data center that could make use of a GW should the DC not show up, unless we start a new virgin Al industry.
We DO need clean steel, though, and our 7/8 blast furnaces will need 30+GW to replace
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
As Keynes put it, “when the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
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The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
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Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
Survey finds 60 per cent of Ningaloo coral has turned to stone
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
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‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
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How much did that cost?
The Texas National Guard has departed Illinois, ending a futile 41-day deployment in which its soldiers spent less than 24 hours working in support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission.
Texas National Guard departs Illinois
The out-of-state troops, which had been living at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in southwest suburban Elwood, left facility as of 1 p.m. Monday, according to a memorandum obtained by the Tr…
trib.al
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
How much did that cost?
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My column - Japan imports stonks of our gas for powering its electricity and yet Japan has cheaper electricity than Australia, what the?? #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
Japan imports Australian gas yet has cheaper electricity than Australia?
The broken nature of Australia energy market has been highlighted by a report that Japanese households pay less for electricity than Australians do, despite Japanese electricity being reliant on Austr...
thepoint.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My column - Japan imports stonks of our gas for powering its electricity and yet Japan has cheaper electricity than Australia, what the?? #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
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Just in time for Christmas? “This tech is really new, and it’s basically unregulated, and there are a lot of open questions about it and how it’s going to impact kids...”
Also: "In other tests, Kumma... launched into explicitly sexual territory by explaining a multitude of kinks and fetishes..."
Also: "In other tests, Kumma... launched into explicitly sexual territory by explaining a multitude of kinks and fetishes..."
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Just in time for Christmas? “This tech is really new, and it’s basically unregulated, and there are a lot of open questions about it and how it’s going to impact kids...”
Also: "In other tests, Kumma... launched into explicitly sexual territory by explaining a multitude of kinks and fetishes..."
Also: "In other tests, Kumma... launched into explicitly sexual territory by explaining a multitude of kinks and fetishes..."
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Albo, the little PM that could.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Albo, the little PM that could.
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A smart govt - or even one with a PM who had a desire to do anything - would be using the LNP rabble to put in place every fucking thing they wanted.
Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.
Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.
Good column by Sean Kelly on the ALP needing to not waste the idiocy of the Libs
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
You thought climate was a Coalition problem, but Albanese may rue his enemy’s low ebb
Before Labor becomes too smug, it should heed the warning of its president, Wayne Swan: Complacency is “the handmaiden of decline”.
www.smh.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A smart govt - or even one with a PM who had a desire to do anything - would be using the LNP rabble to put in place every fucking thing they wanted.
Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.
Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.
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I will, again, contemplate what it would be like for my Con Law prof (Charles Alan Wright) to still be around to see this
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I will, again, contemplate what it would be like for my Con Law prof (Charles Alan Wright) to still be around to see this
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Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times
The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025
tasmaniantimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
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Here’s yet another example of a co-op building saving money NET while complying with NYC Local Law 97 by upgrading to higher energy efficiency.
✅ saving money
✅ creating jobs
✅ cutting pollution
I see documented, new examples all the time. 🎉
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bymL...
✅ saving money
✅ creating jobs
✅ cutting pollution
I see documented, new examples all the time. 🎉
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bymL...
How Smart Building Controls Pay for Themselves
YouTube video by Habitat Magazine
m.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here’s yet another example of a co-op building saving money NET while complying with NYC Local Law 97 by upgrading to higher energy efficiency.
✅ saving money
✅ creating jobs
✅ cutting pollution
I see documented, new examples all the time. 🎉
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bymL...
✅ saving money
✅ creating jobs
✅ cutting pollution
I see documented, new examples all the time. 🎉
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bymL...
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There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
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If only it was a more standard mfa implementation?l, or better yet passkeys.
It’s kind of weird the mfa implementation for a modern system is fucking email. It’s not 2010 any more.
It’s kind of weird the mfa implementation for a modern system is fucking email. It’s not 2010 any more.
🛡️ ENABLE 2FA - Add an extra security layer via Settings > Privacy and Security > Enable 2FA. While Bluesky 2FA helps protect your account, make sure your email also has 2FA enabled for maximum protection. 3/10
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If only it was a more standard mfa implementation?l, or better yet passkeys.
It’s kind of weird the mfa implementation for a modern system is fucking email. It’s not 2010 any more.
It’s kind of weird the mfa implementation for a modern system is fucking email. It’s not 2010 any more.
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“Oh noes, children might talk to creeps that might say terrible things to them, ban under 16’s from social media”
*but deck the halls with AI toys tho, amirite?*
*but deck the halls with AI toys tho, amirite?*
November 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
“Oh noes, children might talk to creeps that might say terrible things to them, ban under 16’s from social media”
*but deck the halls with AI toys tho, amirite?*
*but deck the halls with AI toys tho, amirite?*
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If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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Business and farmers, incl. the Australian Farmers Federation, support #climate action, #NetZero and #renewables. Why does the mainstream news media rarely report their views yet rptedly airs the spin of the fossil fuels industry (via their spruikers like Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan)? #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Business and farmers, incl. the Australian Farmers Federation, support #climate action, #NetZero and #renewables. Why does the mainstream news media rarely report their views yet rptedly airs the spin of the fossil fuels industry (via their spruikers like Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan)? #auspol
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TFW when Insurance is *the* key channel spreading climate risk throughout the financial system, via @climatecabinet.org's @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social with @kostyack.bsky.social and @spears.bsky.social.
2008 vibes, folks.
2008 vibes, folks.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
TFW when Insurance is *the* key channel spreading climate risk throughout the financial system, via @climatecabinet.org's @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social with @kostyack.bsky.social and @spears.bsky.social.
2008 vibes, folks.
2008 vibes, folks.